Changing against tone merging trends in community? the case of C. Y. Leung

Ziqi Chen; Yao Yao; Alan C.L. Yu

Changing against tone merging trends in community? the case of C. Y. Leung

Ziqi Chen
, Yao Yao
, Alan C.L. Yu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

Compared to the voluminous literature of soundchange and variation across speakers andgenerations, much less is understood aboutchange and variation within individuals acrossthe lifespan. In this paper, we present a study ofthe Cantonese speech of a public figure, Mr.Chun-ying Leung (1954-), recorded over a spanof three decades (1984-2013), which coincideswith a period when multiple sound changeswere in progress in Hong Kong Cantonese,including the merging of tones. Assisted withautomatic segmentation and annotation, 13,389tokens representing 878 unique characters withunchecked tones were measured for F0. Ourresults show that instead of merging tones,Leung made increasingly greater distinction inthe past three decades between potential tonemerging targets, exhibiting sound changes inthe opposite directions of the ongoing changesin the community.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Editors	Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Yu-Yin Hsu, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	107-114
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018
Event	32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 1 Dec 2018 → 3 Dec 2018

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Conference	32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	1/12/18 → 3/12/18

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Language and Linguistics
Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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Chen, Z., Yao, Y., & Yu, A. C. L. (2018). Changing against tone merging trends in community? the case of C. Y. Leung. In S. Politzer-Ahles, Y.-Y. Hsu, C.-R. Huang, & Y. Yao (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (pp. 107-114). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://aclanthology.org/Y18-1012.pdf

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Changing against tone merging trends in community? the case of C. Y. Leung. / Chen, Ziqi; Yao, Yao; Yu, Alan C.L.
Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. ed. / Stephen Politzer-Ahles; Yu-Yin Hsu; Chu-Ren Huang; Yao Yao. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018. p. 107-114.

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